Zetzsche pleads not guilty

Tracey Zetzsche, a 52-year-old Westerlo woman accused of killing her son with three knives and a hammer, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder Wednesday morning at her arraignment in Albany County Court.

Authorities believe Zetzsche killed her 22-year-old son, Gabriel Philby-Zetzsche, in late July. She allegedly stabbed him in the head and heart with three different knives, including a butter knife, and hit him in the head more than 20 times with both ends of a hammer. Philby-Zetzsche was killed inside their home. Investigators believe Zetzsche left her son’s body in the apartment for five days until Philby-Zetzsche was found by his aunt.